October Elements Challenges have kicked off!

Hey there folks! Leah here, filling in for our Adina-Dollie, who can't come to the phone - er - INTERNET right now, but she'll be back soon with our September Elements Challenges prize winner, I promise! Thanks for your patience, dear friends! We know you all understand that life gets in the way of our crafty fun sometimes... ;)

Thanks for all of your participation and gorgeous inspiration in our September Elements Challenges - we LOVED seeing everyone's entries, and, as always, we are humbled by the attention you give our little blog here. :)

Let's kick off the October Elements Challenges with something necessary, shall we? Ready? How about joining me in a little song......

"it's beginning to look a lot like..."

Yep, you guessed it! The Design Dollies are doing it all up HOLIDAY-STYLE! Let's see what wonderful Christmas/Holiday projects you can create - and remember it can be a card, scrapbook page, altered item, decoration, frame or other altered thing... Whatever floats your boats! We know we have friends all over the globe and from a variety of backgrounds (religious or otherwise), so anything to do with the holidays is absolutely welcome!

For a little inspiration, and maybe to get those holiday juices flowing (because quite frankly, I am TOTALLY struggling to get these projects rollin'!), here's what's been going on in the Studio at the Dollhouse...

Dana-Dollie made this BEAUTIFUL Christmas journal album -what a GREAT way to preserve the season's memories (and maybe look back to see what you might want to do DIFFERENTLY when next Christmas rolls around!):

Our Norwegian Nerdy-Dollie, Metal_Minish, brings us a very non-traditional Christmas TREE ("Jul" being Swedish for "Christmas") - in his very cute, unique and quirky style:

(And Adina-Dollie may be back to share her crafty little bidnizz when she's able to visit again, so watch for that!)

We Dollies are all about doing things a bit DIFFERENTLY, so we'd love to see what fabby and unique things you're going to show us! Link your projects below by next Monday, October 11th at midnight EST and you'll be entered to win a little something yummy from our sponsor, Scrap-A-Doodle-Doo!

September winner, and another funky color combo!

Hey there, friends and visitors to the Dollhouse! Thanks for dropping by again, and OOOHHH, we have a fabby October in store for you!

Let's kick things off first by saying THANK YOU to everyone who played along with the September Color Challenges - participation was wonderful, even for the colors that were outside many people's comfort zones, and the projects were just incredible. We love that so many talented crafters from around the WORLD (and it's a pretty big place, you know!) come to play along on our little blog. We are forever humbled!

So who was the big winner of this delish batch of BasicGrey goodness? Well a big congrats to the Trifectin' gal who gave us THIS little gem:

Well done, Roz K! You rocked the challenges last week, and kicked the Trifecta in the butt, and as a result, I will be very happy to send you THIS:

Roz, please drop me, Leah, a line at spazzicassi@yahoo.ca, and I will get these Halloweenie treats out for you!

So are you folks READY?! For the next round of challenges? 'Cuz we Dollies had a ton of fun with this one, your very first OCTOBER CHALLENGE! Here we go....

Red, Blue, Ivory and Brown

Now don't go getting all antsy on me - I KNOW you can do this! Our Dolls made it look easy (and I promise, it was!)... See for yourselves:

Penny rocked another of her famous two-pagers with this mucky little creation:

Chiqui gave us this gorgeous brown page with colors that just LEAP off the screen at you!


I, Leah the Orange, opted for a couple of krafty cards (natch!):

SEE? You CAN do this, people! Lots of manufacturers have JUST the papers in their recent collections to make this work, so now I leave this challenge in your very capable hands and I can't WAIT to see you work your magic. :)

I have a rather impressive pile of goodies to photograph, but I'm afraid I may not be able to do it for a few days, so you'll just have to take my word for it that the prize will be a good one, and well worth the effort for combos such as these. Scouts honor!

Play along with this one by next Sunday, October 10th at midnight EST and your name goes into "the hat" for this month's prize. Your project must be created NEW for the challenge, and you must link back here (at least to the Dollies blog, please!). Also, we've gotten some entries that link to an image rather than a blog post, or to the general blog rather than the specific post. When you publish your post featuring your Dollies challenge card, view that specific post and link THAT addy up below so that we may more easily find your gorgeous projects and leave you some Dollie-love!

Have fun with it, folks, and join us tomorrow for our second Trifecta ingredient! (click the link if you currently have a "what the HECK are you talking about?!" look on your face and you'll get the deets!)

Last Sketch of the Month!

I hate to say it but this is the last sketch of the month! Where the heck has the time gone? sigh Well let's hop to it!

Be inspired by our Dollies!

Karen

Dana

Kristy

So there you have it! Are the ideas coming alive in your noggin? Run with it! Let's see what you can create. You have until Wednesday Oct 6 at midnight EST to get in on the sketch OR Sunday Oct 3 at midnight EST  to get your Trifecta on. 

Final Elements Challenge for September!

Welcome back Doll fans! Our final elements challenge for the month is a recipe for ya... This week, please use the following items in your next project:

1. A ticket (any type)
2. The color yellow
3. Polka dots
4. Paint
5. Journaling or a WORDY sentiment

And as always, we have some intrepid examples to help you get that mojo going...

From Chiqui, she has this AMAZING brick looking Back to School page
And Penny wowed us with this double page work of art:

My camera is officially kaput, so hopefully I'll be able to share my creations with the blogosphere at another date, but in the meantime, get cracking on YOUR work of art and upload via the little froggy by Midnight on Monday, October 4th to be included in the final Elements drawing (and a SWEET certificate to Scrap A Doodle Doo!) for the month! Happy Scrappin!

LAST Color Challenge for Sept - win YUMMY BasicGrey!

Monday again!
If you're stuck at work, well it just means you have something to look forward to when you go home, 'cuz I have a brand new COLOR CHALLENGE for you - the last one of the month, and your last chance to win THIS:

HOT prize pack of Halloweeny goodness from BasicGrey plus some coordinating fixin's!

You wanna know what to do THIS week? Well here's your very first ingredient for the final TRIFECTA of September....

LAVENDER, TAN and NAVY

And we'd like to give a HUGE thank you to JINGLE, who has played with us in the Dollhouse as our Guest Dollie for the month of September! She's rocked her assignments, and I'm quite sure she's wowed you, too, so drop by her blog and leave some love (and do follow - she's FULL of brilliant ideas!).

Here's Jingle's last Dollies project for this month:

And a little something from moi, Leah the Orange:

A tasty little country-inspired card from our Dollie Nicole:

And a lovely page with some fabby details from our Nerd-Dollie, Metal_Minish:

A few of our Dollies were a bit intimidated by these colors - what do you think? They still managed to rock it, didn't they?

Well if you're willing to brave this one, you'll get entered to win the fabby prize above, and all you have to do is make something (anything!) NEW (no back-linking!), enter your link below, link back to the Dollhouse in your blog post, and make sure it's submitted by next SUNDAY, October 3rd at midnight EST.

You are welcome to wait until tomorrow's Elements Challenge, or even Thursday's Sketch Challenge release, if you'd like to combine any or all of these for chances to win MORE yummy prizes, but it all wraps up Sunday night, so have at 'er! Happy craftin', folks!